Seth Elliott is a senior software engineer with nine years focused on backend infrastructure and distributed systems, currently driving traffic engineering at Pinterest. He has a track record of building core frameworks and developer tooling at Meta (improving Thrift’s reliability and observability) and leading backend infrastructure at Eventbrite to boost platform performance and engineer productivity. Earlier experience includes founding and architecting a mobile payments startup as CTO and contributing to networking tools like iperf3 during national lab internships, showing a blend of product, systems, and research-oriented engineering. Based in Nashville, he pairs deep low-level systems expertise with a passion for empowering other engineers and solving hard reliability and performance problems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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Seth Elliott - Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest